Brief Encounter Quotes

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am.

I don't know John Riggins. I mean, I've met him a few times, and I had dinner with him once.

I got married when I was 24 and met my husband when I was 22, so what I know about men in a personal experience could literally fill an index card.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.

But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.

When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.

For a sitcom sex scene, you get in bed and that's the end of the scene. It quick and it was fast, but it was foreign territory for me. Not for Bobby. Bobby Cannavale has been down that road before. With my character, I think it will be a one-and-out. I don't think you'll see my character [in Vinyl] naked again, so relax everybody.

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

As an introvert, you have to spend a lot of time with me and then little bits of my personality will come out over time. But as an artist, sometimes you only get five minutes to impress someone, so it is kind of hard.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.